(Own report) - 65 years after Europe's liberation from Nazi fascism, the debate around one of the influential supporters of German expansion still continues: the businessman from Hamburg, Alfred Toepfer who died in 1993 and the foundation he created, the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS. In the 1930s, this foundation sought to enhance Nazi Germany's influence . . .

(Own report) - German government advisors are insisting on concerted efforts to politically neutralize British EU-skeptics. As explained in a recent paper published by the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), the British Conservatives' attitude will have a "decisive influence on helping to set the EU's future radius of action," because the ambitious . . .

(Own report) - Berlin is insisting on access to essential posts in the European External Action Service (EEAS). According to news reports, the German government is demanding that the post of EEAS General Secretary be given to a German. Leading personnel from the Chancellery and the Foreign Ministry are being suggested. The general secretary heads . . .

(Own report) - Under massive protests, Opel is preparing further steps toward the consolidation of the European auto industry in Germany. According to recent reports, the company's plants and those of its affiliate Vauxhall in Great Britain and Spain will be scaled back by one-third. The Opel plant in Belgium will be completely shut down. . . .

(Own report) - An advisor to the German government predicts a rapid loss of world political significance by Great Britain. The United Kingdom had overtaxed its armed forces in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and could not maintain its combat forces - "one of the central instruments for the achievement of political aims" - . . .

(Own report) - Government advisors in Berlin are calling for the activities of the British police and military in Pakistan to be placed under EU control. As recently formulated in a discussion paper of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Brussels is, at the moment, developing only economic activities in this South . . .

(Own Report) - Accompanied by protests, Thursday October 18 the European Council passed the "EU Reform Treaty". That document replaces the EU Constitution, that had been democratically rejected in a couple of national referenda. The treaty, that fulfills German demands for uniformity in EU foreign policy and lends this federation of states aspects of a . . .

(Own report) - British trade unions announce new protests against the privatization of the National Health Service and several German buyers. Hospital strikes took place last autumn, over the Deutsche Post subsidiary, DHL, being granted a billion Euro contract for lucrative logistics services for the National Health Service (NHS). The conflict will be continued beyond . . .

(Own report) - The German Railroad Corp.'s rise to a predominating position in European Rail traffic is encountering resistance in Great Britain. The director of the German Railroad, Hartmut Mehdorn, seeks to use the billions in proceeds generated by the forthcoming privatization of the enterprise, to buy up the rail companies in several EU countries. . . .

(Own report) - In Norway last week, the German Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, strengthened the position of Germany, in the struggle for Arctic energy resources. The enormous reserves, that are only beginning to be tapped, are very significant for the EU's future power supply, which is increasingly dependent upon Russian and German-Russian energy cooperation. Gazprom, . . .

Europe's largest media company, the German firm Bertelsmann AG, is taking over official tasks normally performed by public authority in Great Britain. From July 2005 a Bertelsmann subsidiary will undertake the majority of public administration in a British local authority. The plan is regarded by the German firm as a ,,pilot project of strategic importance"for its expansion into a multi . . .

New groupings of German businesses are pressing on with their efforts to gain control of significant shares of the lucrative British energy market. Great Britain, being regarded as an ally of the USA and hence as a potential obstacle to Germany's efforts to achieve dominance, is becoming dependent on foreign producers for its energy supplies and will thus become more . . .

The parliament of a German Land (Province) is setting itself up as the advocate of ethnic opposition groups in several European states. This German agitation is focused (inter alia) on the Cornish ,,ethnic group"(Volksgruppe) in the South West of England. . . .

Berlin Ministries are financing the penetration of the planning process in all European states. They are working on detailed projects for the ,,spatial development" of foreign territories. These studies are not only concerned with the traditional German sphere of influence on the eastern borders. They also take in western Europe including Great Britain and France. . . .

Berliner Ministerien finanzieren die planerische Durchdringung sämtlicher europäischer Staaten und arbeiten an Detailprojekten für die ,,räumliche Erschließung"fremder Territorien. Entsprechende Studien beziehen sich nicht nur auf traditionelle deutsche Einflussgebiete an den Ostgrenzen, sondern greifen auch nach Westeuropa aus, so nach Großbritannien und Frankreich. Die grenzüberschreitende Planungstätigkeit wird in einer eigenen Fachzeitschrift erörtert, die in Leipzig erscheint und von einem ,,Institut für Länderkunde"(IfL) herausgegeben . . .

The ,,International Institute for Nationality Rights and Regionalism", a well known front organisation for German foreign policy, can see good opportunities for the further extension of ethnic concepts in Europe. At its most recent conference the institute maintained that ethnic conflicts were smouldering in the nation states of France, Spain and Ireland, which could be pacified by ,,Ethnic Group Law". . . .

In the next few weeks thirty patients from Great Britain will be treated in German hospitals as part of a pilot project. The costs of the project, which is the initiative of ,,The Trust for promoting German Medicine abroad"will be borne by the British National Health Service. It is intended as a model. Great Britain will be compelled by . . .